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->''"Let his death be a particularly unpleasant and humiliating one."''-->-- '''Ernst Stavro Blofeld''', head of SPECTRE

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After [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy the President of the United States]] announced that ''Literature/FromRussiaWithLove'' was his 9th favourite book, it became clear to EON which novel they were going to adapt next.

This film, the second ''Film/JamesBond'' film, involves 007 having to escort a defector from CommieLand (more specifically the USSR) to the West. Of course, [[WhenHarryMetSvetlana she's female]].

Notable scenes in this film:* A boat chase that ends with a wall of fire.* A helicopter chase.* A long, drawn-out fight between Bond and Red Grant on the Orient Express. Creator/SeanConnery and Robert Shaw did most of the fight scene themselves.* A CatFight between two gypsies, sometimes removed from TV broadcasts, which serves nothing more than to have two scantily-clad women fighting each other.* [[Creator/LotteLenya Rosa]] [[TheBaroness Klebb's]] [[KickChick shoe dagger]].* [[ReadyForLovemaking Tatiana's seduction of Bond by entering his hotel room and getting into his bed]]. [[FetishFuel Wearing only a black ribbon around her neck and a pair of black stockings]].** The love scene used for screen-testing Bonds.* The very first appearance of [[BigBad Blofeld]], complete with [[TheFaceless hidden face]] and [[RightHandCat white Persian cat]].* The very first appearance of Desmond Llewelyn as Q.

This film and its title are so well known that variations on the title are common as newspaper headlines for articles to do with Russia. A London exhibition of pre-RedOctober Russian art, sponsored ''by the Russian government'', couldn't resist a gag, calling itself ''From Russia''.

The movie is typically considered one of the best, if not ''the'' best of the Bond franchise. One filmmaker notes that almost every Bond movie production starts out trying to make the next ''From Russia with Love'' and ends up being the next ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''.

Over 40 years later the film was adapted into a video game for 6th-generation consoles, ''VideoGame/DoubleOhSevenFromRussiaWithLove'', with Sean Connery reprising his iconic role for the first time in decades.

Fun fact: Connery cites ''From Russia With Love'' as his personal favorite of the Bond films he made. ----!!This film contains examples of:

* ActionPrologue: The very first, though with BaitAndSwitch as the Bond there is just a [[LatexPerfection masked mook]].* AdaptationDyeJob: In the book Tatiana had black hair. In the film she has blonde hair. * AdaptationNameChange: The "SPEKTOR" cryptography machine from the novel becomes the "LEKTOR" in the film, probably to avoid confusion with the villainous organization "SPECTRE".* AgentsDating: The Soviets (in the book) and SPECTRE (in the movie) cook up a plan to kill Bond with Tatiana Romanova, a KGB enlisted woman. He knows it's a trap but goes along with it, because (aside from the [[SensualSlavs obvious reasons]]) it comes with a chance to steal the valuable encoding device.* ArmedLegs: Rosa Klebb has poisoned blades contained in her shoes.* AsYouKnow: Kronsteen's dialogue to Blofeld at the beginning is basically this, as he essentially recaps the ending of ''Film/DrNo'', mentions that M is the head of British intelligence, and that they have an agent named James Bond who was responsible for killing Dr. No. All information Blofeld most certainly would have been aware of, but which viewers who may not have seen ''Dr. No'' yet might not be, especially as neither Bond nor M appear on screen until about 15 minutes into the picture.** Blofeld mentions (offhand) that M is the head of the British Secret Service not Kronsteen, whereas Kronsteen has to justify his plan to Blofeld (he mentions having Bond killed as an added bonus for revenge against killing Dr. No) so this is all justifiable as opposed to mere exposition for the audience's benefit. * BadBoss* BatmanGambit: Bond plays on Grant's greed and suspicion to get him to open the booby-trapped case. The bribe gets him interested, but when Bond too-quickly grabs the second suitcase, Grant insists on opening it himself in case there's a weapon there.* BellyDancer: In the gypsy camp, as well as the opening credits.* BiggerBad: Blofeld is this here. He's not directly active in the plot this time, but it's clear that him and the rest of SPECTRE are a much bigger threat that Bond will have to face in the future.* BlatantLies: Bond tells Moneypenny he'd never look at another woman.* BlofeldPloy: TropeNamer and TropeCodifier, all in one convenient package. Also an UnbuiltTrope -- like all examples actually featuring Blofeld, he kills the man he actually thinks is responsible for the mess. He is wrong, since it was Klebb's man Red Grant who actually stuffed things up, but a) Neither he, Klebb or Kronsteen knew that, b) That was still more Grant's fault personally than Klebb's, and c) Kronsteen was [[SmugSnake being an ass]]. Also deviates from the usual in that it's Morzeny who executes Kronsteen, on Blofeld's (implied) orders.* BlondGuysAreEvil: Red Grant is one of the iconic ones.** Grant led to this trope being used over and over again in the Bond series in the form of the muscular blonde brute henchman.* BondOneLiner: ** "She should have kept her mouth shut"; "She's had her kicks."** There's also "I'd say one of their aircraft is missing", which for younger viewers falls almost nonsensically flat, but it's a reference to ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Our_Aircraft_Is_Missing One of Our Aircraft Is Missing]]'', or at least to the [[WorldWarII wartime]] phrase it's based on. It was still a relevant and clever reference in 1963, and that was the target audience.* BoundAndGagged: Grant to a Russian mook.* CatFight: The fight between two Gypsy girls.* ChekhovsGun: ** In the train after telling 'Nash' (really Red Grant) and Tatiana to go to dinner, Bond searches Nash's things which includes his briefcase (with Bond carefully opening it the same way Q instructed at the beginning of the film, indicating the briefcase is the same as Bond's own). Later on when he has Bond at gunpoint, Grant forces Bond to open up his own briefcase to retrieve the gold sovereigns he offered (which Bond does without incident). Then Grant asks about the 'other' case ...** Come to that, practically everything in the magic attache case ends up being used - it's a ChekhovsArmoury. Chekhov's Sniper Rifle, Chekhov's Throwing Knife, Chekhov's Fifty Gold Sovereigns, Chekhov's Tear Gas Cartridge...which becomes standard for Bond adventures, where every blessed gadget Q gives him is going to be needed before the closing credits. ** The lethal effects of the shoe knife are first demonstrated on Kronsteen, so the audience knows what will happen if Klebb lands a kick on Bond.--->'''Blofeld:''' Twelve seconds. One day we must devise a faster-acting venom.* ContinuityNod: ** In a SPECTRE meeting, Kronsteen mentions "the killing of our operative, Film/DrNo".** Sylvia Trench reappears, once again denied a romance with Bond as he's called away on a mission. This was meant to be a RunningGag throughout the series, but the character was dropped after this film. One could argue that Moneypenny played out that gag, in her own way.* DeadlyTrainingArea: A villainous example:-->'''Rosa Klebb''': Training is useful, but there is no substitute for experience.-->'''Morzeny''': I agree. We use live targets as well.** And we even see one mook dodging blasts from a flamethrower.* DirtyCommunists: Subverted. The original Fleming story had them, but most were changed to agents of the supranational criminal union SPECTRE, running a FalseFlagOperation.* DistractedByTheSexy: The guard at the gypsy camp is knifed because he's watching the belly dancer.** Bond stays focused on the mission despite Tatiana constantly hitting on him, though Kerim Bey enjoys suggesting that he's not as impervious as he's making out.** Fortunately Kerim falls for this trope, leaving his desk to 'relax' with his girl just when a bomb detonates on the other side of the wall.* TheDragon: Red Grant is one for Rosa Klebb, who in turn is one for Blofeld.* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Q is quite a bit more respectful toward Bond while explaining the attache case's gadgets. Q's relationship with Bond is not cemented until the next movie.* EvilGloating: Lampshaded, by the gloater himself no less.-->'''Grant:''' I don't mind talking. I get a kick out of watching the ''great'' James Bond find out what a bloody fool he's been making of himself.* [[PsychoLesbian Evil Lesbian]]: Implied with Klebb when she caresses Tatiana's hair while saying "a labour of love".** Quite explicit in the novel, where Kronsteen notes that she has "overcome the sex instinct," and can have a lover tortured to death just as easily as a stranger; and her effort to seduce Tanya sends the latter fleeing from the room.* TheFaceless: Blofeld. According to ''Film/LuckyNumberSlevin'', this is what makes him the best Blofeld - "That's when the villain is most effective - when [[NothingIsScarier you don't know what he looks like]]." The credits even refuse to tell us the actor's name, and simply feature a question mark. For the record, the body is Anthony Dawson (Professor Dent from the previous film) and the voice was Eric Pohlmann.* FakeDefector: What Tatiana is told her mission is to be.* FalseFlagOperation: Formerly SPECTRE's specialty. They pretend to be the KGB to steal the Lektor and destroy Bond.** They perform one as the British early in the film, killing one of the Bulgarian drivers who work for the Soviets. This causes the Soviets to heat up the normally routine observations both sides play in Istanbul.* FamousNamedForeigner: Tatiana Romanova.* FanService: The catfight between the Gypsy women and the belly dance are purely for the male audience's viewing pleasure. * FiveBadBand:** TheBigBad: Blofeld** TheDarkChick: Rosa Klebb** TheDragon / MookLieutenant: Morzeny** TheEvilGenius: Kronsteen** TheBrute: Red Grant which is interesting considering that he had the most direct role in this.* AGlassOfChianti: Bond first grows suspicious of Red Grant when he orders a glass of red Chianti (nonspecific red wine in the videogame adaptation) with fish, a major faux pas for wine lovers.** A case of Cuisine Marches On: nowadays, it's not a faux pas to drink red wine with fish or white with meat (there's a number of white wines that go very well with some particular kinds of meat, and a number of red wines that mix perfectly with fish.) [[http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2013/03/ask-a-sommelier-red-with-meat-white-with-fish-rule-wine-pairing-advice.html Some professional sommeliers' opinions can be found here.]]* GrenadeLauncher: Rifle grenades are used to try and force Bond to stop in the speedboat chase.* GroinAttack: Klebb literally tries to kill Bond at the end by kicking him in the crotch with her poison tipped shoe. * HellishCopter: The first Bond-attacked-by-helicopter scene.* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Grant is throttled with his own wristwatch-garotte.* HollywoodDarkness: When Bond knocks out the mook sent to pick up Grant.* HoneyTrap: Tatiana's purpose. Of course, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim because it's James Bond]], she [[SexFaceTurn falls in love with him anyway]].* HotGypsyWoman: Two of them. They end up together in James's bed.* IkeaWeaponry: Bond uses an [=ArmaLite=] AR-7 Explorer as a SniperRifle. It's only .22 calibre, but the ranges at which it's used this doesn't cause a problem.* IncrediblyObviousTail: Justified because the British and Russian agents in Instanbul tail each other as a matter of course, and no secret is made of it. * InsertCameo: The hand that writes "From Russia, with love" on the photograph belongs to director Terence Young.* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Bond actually works out SPECTRE's plan entirely by himself (once he's told it ''is'' SPECTRE, that is), but Red Grant is perfectly happy to fill in the details while he has him cornered [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim at gunpoint]].* KansasCityShuffle: Kronsteen's plan works on British Intelligence believing it's a KGB trap and thinking they can outsmart the Soviets anyway.* KneelBeforeZod: Grant orders Bond to be on his knees when he has him at his mercy.* TheLancer: Kerim Bay, to Bond.* LatexPerfection: A part of the opening to show [[spoiler:that the Bond that Grant just killed was actually live practice]].* {{Macguffin}}: The Lektor.* MadeOfIron: Klebb tests Grant by punching him in the chest with knuckledusters.* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Grant disposes of Karim Bey and a Russian agent by making it look like they killed each other. Bond and Tatiana's death is supposed to look like a MurderSuicide, but (fortunately) the psychopathic Grant gets too caught up in making Bond beg for his life.* {{Mooks}}: The Bulgars for the KGB, the gypsies and Karim's sons for MI6, and black-clad [[ANaziByAnyOtherName vaguely Germanic]] mooks for SPECTRE. * NebulousEvilOrganization: SPECTRE.* NonindicativeName: None of the film is actually set in Russia. The plot itself is [[FalseFlagOperation made to look like a Soviet one]], but is actually devised by the supranational SPECTRE, and while Tatiana Romanova sounds like a Russian name, when we meet her she's working in Istanbul.* NoodleIncident: Bond is about to reveal something embarrassing involving M while he was in Tokyo. M ''immediately'' pauses the recording and [[Funny/FromRussiaWithLove excuses Moneypenny from the room]].* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Klebb gives Tatiana the choice of either participating in her honey trap of James Bond, or get shot.* OneLastSmoke: DefiedTrope -- Grant's not ''that'' stupid. However, when Bond tells him he's willing to pay for it with the 50 gold sovereigns in his case, that grabs his attention.* OrientExpress* PantyShot: Tatiana Romanova uncrosses her legs briefly while being briefed by Rosa Kleb.* PinPullingTeeth: A SPECTRE mook does this while dropping grenades on Bond from a helicopter. Another mook is flying the aircraft, but for some reason he needs to have a grenade in each hand.* PistolPose* PlungerDetonator: Karim Bey uses one to blow a hole in the floor of the Russian embassy so Bond and Tatiana can escape.* ProductPlacement: Of an interesting sort: Bond snipes Krilencu as the latter tries to escape by climbing from a hatch hidden inside the teeth of AnitaEkberg on a billboard for ''Film/CallMeBwana'', a movie that Albert R. Broccoli produced.* PsychoForHire: Krylenko* ReadyForLovemaking: One of the all-time classic examples of this trope.* RedScare* RevisedEnding: The original novel had Bond struck by Rosa Klebb's poison-stained stiletto and brought to what was his death until Ian Fleming wrote ''Dr. No'' (Where it was revealed that the people with him were able to keep him alive until a doctor could be summoned). The film has him survive and has Tatiana do away with Klebb, and ends with Bond and Tatiana riding triumphantly down Venice's Grand Canal. This was arguably for the better, to avoid a maudlin DownerEnding.** Besides which: Since ''Film/DrNo'' was the first Bond ''film,'' and M ordered Bond at the beginning of the film to replace his Beretta with the Walther PPK because of the Beretta jamming up on him (in an unseen incident that caused Bond to get injured), Bond didn't have the Beretta in the film version of ''From Russia With Love'' anyway.* RoomDisservice: Rosa Klebb's last gambit to kill Bond and steal the code machine is to disguise herself as a hotel maid.* ShoePhone: This film is the first to have gadgets, although they are rather mundane compared to later versions. Specifically, the tear-gas bomb disguised as a tin of talcum powder, and Rosa Klebb's shoe-dagger. Grant has a wire garotte hidden inside his watch.* ShootingGallery* SlippingAMickey: Grant puts chloral hydrate in Tatiana's drink.* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Kronsteen, who is a literal chessmaster. * SmokingHotSex: Tatiana lights up after sleeping with Bond on the train.* SnipingTheCockpit: Downplayed. Bond shoots the co-pilot of the helicopter trying to kill him. The shot itself isn't anywhere near enough to bring it down on its own, but the fact that the co-pilot was holding a primed grenade at the time causes the helicopter to explode.* SoMuchForStealth: Grant breaking a twig during the ActionPrologue -- in a subversion, he picks up the twig and snaps it deliberately, presumably to get his target moving towards him.* SpySchool: The SMERSH training academy.* SpySpeak: Exchanged between Bond and one of Kerim's sons when he arrives in Istanbul.* SupervillainLair: SPECTRE Island.* SuperWristGadget: Long before Bond himself began wearing [[ProductPlacement Omega watches]] with all kinds of cool functions, Red Grant wears a watch with a garrotte wire concealed in the winding mechanism.* SurpriseCheckmate: TheChessmaster Kronsteen doesn't quite manage checkmate, but his opponent has his king pinned down to a single square. He sees that it's hopeless and surrenders.* SwarmOfRats: Appears as Bond escapes from the embassy in the sewers.* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: Averted. Because of difficulties getting the right reactions from tame rats, the production ended up using real wild rats -- described in marketing materials as "ferocious and disease-ridden" -- caught in the sewers of Madrid.* TitleDrop: Bond writes "From Russia, with love" on the photo of Tatiana that he gives to Moneypenny.** The title is also heard in the song 'From Russia With Love' (sung by Matt Munro) which can be heard playing on the radio when Bond first appears in the film.* TranquilFury: Bond's reaction to the death of [[spoiler: Kerim Bey]]. Notable in the fact that it is one of the few times we ever see Bond mad at all.* UnbuiltTrope: The film was made before the conventions of the series had become rote, and as such has a very different feel to later Bond films. The big TropeCodifier for the Bond films was the next film: ''Goldfinger''.* UndignifiedDeath: "The first one won't kill you...nor the second...nor even the third. Not 'til you crawl over here and you ''kiss my foot!''"* VideoInsideFilmOutside: During an external shot of Venice, a preemptive reference appears to the Creator/MontyPython sketch;-->'''Tatiana:''' Behave yourself, James! We're being filmed...* VillainousBreakdown: Rosa Kleeb, who was mostly calm throughout the movie, is a desperate wreck when she fights Bond. Justified in that if she fails to kill Bond and get the Lektor, she'll end up like Kronsteen.* VillainousRescue: A knife-wielding Bulgar charges up behind Bond, only to be shot dead by Grant who's watching from a distance.* WhenHarryMetSvetlana: One of the earliest and best-loved examples, and likely TropeCodifier. Bond goes in to exfiltrate a beautiful Russian crypto tech who wants to defect with a code machine.* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Averted (or rather, {{unbuilt|trope}}): Bond's gear is nothing like as outlandish as it would become in later films. The most "gadgety" equipment he has is the suitcase, containing hidden strips of gold coins, a knife, a disassembled rifle that (except for the too-small infrared sight) is available commercially, a SuicidePill and a tear gas booby trap, all of which are multipurpose and could be used in nearly any mission, not just one specially written for the gadget.* WouldHitAGirl: Bond is very willing to hit Tatiana when he thinks she has something to do with the death of Kerim Bay.* YouHaveFailedMe: Kronsteen, who ends up becoming the first henchman killed by his boss of the series.** The use of this trope started out more as a subversion as it was made to look like Rosa Klebb was to be executed for her failure. Even more so, her tone made it sound like she was ready to pay the price for her failure.* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Stated by Red Grant to Bond on the train. The only reason SPECTRE kept Bond alive up to that point was for him to get the Lektor, and with it within their grasp, Bond and Tatiana are now expendable (That and the fact that the half the point of the mission was to kill Bond in a way that would embarrass MI6, which Grant was now set up to do). Unfortunately for SPECTRE, things don't go as planned.* YouLookFamiliar:** Walter Gotell, who plays the SPECTRE henchthug, will return to play the Russian General Gogol in six Bond films starting with ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.** Martine Beswick, one of the two fighting Gypsy girls, will have a much larger role as Bond's ill-fated assistant Paula in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''.----